Hanoi Rocks – ‘Oriental Beat – 40th Anniversary Re(al)mix’ (Svart Records)
When Finnish glam legends Hanoi Rocks released their second album, ‘Oriental Beat’, at the start of 1982, they were very much a band on the way up. As it turns out, the band themselves were never happy with the way the album was produced and mixed. In fact they regarded it as a bit of a disaster. Forty years later, after the original master tapes, long since considered ‘lost’, were discovered, the original members of the band had a chance to right all the wrongs and completely remix the whole album. Referred to by Mike Monroe as “the longest and slowest album recording project ever”, the result is ‘Oriental Beat – the 40th anniversary re(al) mix’.
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